Profiles

Mr Sherman Kwek Chief Executive Officer Mr Sherman Kwek was appointed as Chief Executive Officer on 1 November 2008. In his most recent role before joining the Company, Mr Kwek was the Chief Operating Officer of Thakral Corporation Ltd ("Thakral Corp"), listed on the Mainboard of the Stock Exchange of Singapore. At Thakral Corp, he was responsible for running the day-to-day operations of the company and despite operating under difficult industry conditions, managed to steer the company back to profitability in 2007. Before joining Thakral Corp, Mr Kwek was a Director of RECAP Investments Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Real Estate Capital Asia Partners, LP, a real estate private equity fund. He assisted the fund in completing deals in Korea and Thailand as well as sourcing for deals in China. Prior to that, he spent several years in New York, starting out as a financial analyst in Telligent Capital, a technology venture capital firm, before progressing on to the Investment Banking Division of Credit Suisse First Boston. Subsequently, he held a hotel management and property development role at the U.S. division of Millennium & Copthorne Hotels plc, where he assisted the regional president in overseeing 20 hotels throughout the U.S. as well as managing several condominium conversion projects. Mr Derek Man Mang Wo Chief Financial Officer Mr Derek Man joined the Group in 1996 and was appointed Chief Financial Officer of the Company with effect from 1 April 2004. Derek is a member of the Certified General Accountants Association of Canada, a fellow member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and an associate member of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants and The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. He also holds a Bachelor of Business Administration honours degree from a UK university and a Master of Professional Accounting degree from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He has over 25 years of experience in the accounting and finance field.